Euclidis Elementorum libri XV
Subtitle: accessit XVI De solidorum regularium comparatione : omnes perspicuis demonstratibus, accuratisq́[ue] scholijs illustrati
By: auctore Christophoro Clauio Bamberensi, Societatis Iesu
Publisher: Apud Vincentium Accoltum
Published: 1574
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Geometry; Early works to 1800; Mathematics; Greek Mathematics
Other titles: Evclidis elementorvm libri XV; Elementorum libri XV; Euclidis Posteriores libri sex a x. ad xv.; Evclidis Posteriores libri sex a x. ad xv.; Posteriores libri sex a x. ad xv.; Euclid. Geom.
Work titles: Elements
Notes: Volume 2 has title: Euclidis Posteriores libri sex a x. ad xv. : accessit XVI De solidorum regularium comparatione ...

Colophon, volume 2: Romae, apud Vincentium Accoltum. MDLXXIIII.

Signatures: a-e⁸ A-2S⁸ 2T⁴; A-2O⁸ 2P⁴.

Titles within architectural border featuring Jesuit device; text within single line border; type ornament head- and tail-pieces; initials; printer's device above colophon at end of volume 2.

Volume 1 last leaf blank.

Includes errata (volume 1, leaf [16] verso).

EDIT 16, CNCE 18360

National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, volume 163, page 211 (NE 0188831)

Thomas-Stanford, C. Early editions of Euclid's Elements, 19

Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 238

Purchased in 2019 with the Herman Dunlop Smith Bequest and the Morris H. Morgan Memorial Fund.

Former owner's inscription: Zacharius Bremdolij Doct. lib. [illegible].

Illegible inscription on rear pastedown dated 1630.

Stamps: Bibliothek der TU Dresden [title page verso] with withdrawn stamp over top; volume 2, leaf 214: Bibliothek Technische Universitat Dresden.

Volume 1 with extensive contemporary manuscript annotations in Latin and occasionally Greek in 2[?] hands (chiefly that of Zacharius Bremdolus[?]), includes added diagrams and calculations; underscoring; rear endpapers with extensive annotations.

Volumes bound together in contemporary panel-stamped pigskin; central panel on front cover features a portrait of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor with the caption "Carole mortales dubitant homo sisne deusue sunt tuas ceptra nominis sed tua fact"; central panel on rear cover features the arms of the Holy Roman Empire of the with caption "Sacri Romani Imperii Insig." and binder's initials "H.B." [Heinrich Blume]; in CMI case.